European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 1, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 8 a the stars and stripes monday june 1, 1992 Worl Cheney visits Sweden to discuss its defences from wire reports Stockholm Sweden a defense Secretary Dick Cheney arrived in Sweden on saturday for a four Day visit to review swedish defences and the changing military situation in Europe. Cheney was received by his swedish counterpart Anders Bjorck and . Ambassador Charles Redman in the Lapland mining town of Kiruna North of the Arctic Circle. Cheney was non committal when asked about a current debate in Sweden concerning the Neutral nations relationship with nato and reported adjustments of airstrips for North Atlantic treaty organization aircraft. A i m not involved in that. Sweden builds its own airfields to suit its own needs a he s Surprise ending Copenhagen Denmark a videos of Walt Disney a Cinderella cartoon have been removed from toy stores across the country after a videotape showed pornographic scenes at the end of the fairy tale a newspaper reported saturday. The tabloid ekstra bladet said a grandmother was surprised to discover close from a porn film at the end of Walt Disney a Cinderella cartoon video which she had bought for her visiting grandchild. A we immediately withdrew All Cinderella cartoons from our said Henrik Gjorup executive manager of by the country a largest toy store Chain. Strike closes 2 museums Paris a the louvre museum and the orsay museum were closed sunday because of a strike by Security guards demanding More Money and better working conditions said officials at the French culture ministry. The orsay Home to one of the worlds great collections of 19th-Century Art also was closed saturday by the strike. Both museums arc among the City a leading cultural blast kills 21 Bombay India a a Gas Cylinder exploded at a restaurant As people ate breakfast sunday killing 21 of them authorities said. One customer was Able to escape. The Cylinder used to Cook meals was located outside the Only door in the building in Shaivi a Large slum in North Central Bombay. The windows were sealed with Iron grills according to fire and police bans dissident Hong Kong a a prominent chinese dissident who left her studies in the United states to commemorate the Tiana men Square anniversary at Home was refused entry into China on saturday. The Case the second of its kind in three Days sparked fears that China has developed a blacklist. It came despite other signs that China was try ing to improve its image in the West As Washington prepares to Rule on its most favored nation Trade status. Dai qing a in Conan fellow at Harvard la Niver sity in Cambridge mass., w As preparing to Fly from Hong Kong for the last leg of her trip to Beijing w Hen officials told her she could not get on Board. Israeli warplanes attack guerrilla Sites in Lebanon Baalbek Lebanon apr israeli aircraft sunday blasted a Hezbollah guerrilla base in East Lebanon and fired rockets on the houses of two officials of the shiite Muslim group police said. At least three civilians were wounded police said. Sundays raids were the seventh and eighth in two weeks of violence Between Israel and Hezbollah or party of god. At least 25 people have been killed and 63 wounded in the surge in fighting police say. Syrian anti aircraft batteries opened up against the warplanes attacking the base but no hits were seen local reporters said. Earlier sunday israeli troops and Allied militia members renewed shelling shiite villages in South Lebanon. Fifteen minutes after the morning attack on the guerrilla base two ah-1 cobra helicopter gunships fired rockets on the houses of Hezbollah commanders in Majdali Silim and Bir Al Tanasil villages patrolled by the . Peacekeeping Force in South Lebanon. Sources close to the Force said the houses of both men Ali Abdul Karim Yasen and Ibrahim Karim were demolished. The sources speaking on condition Iraq intensifies War on rebels Nicosia Cyprus apr Saddam Hussein has stepped up his offensive against shiite Muslim rebels holed up in iraqis Southern marshes and named his defense minister to take command of the operation say iranian backed rebels and travellers from Iraq. Iran a official islamic Republic news Agency monitored in Cyprus quoted a reliable sources As saying 500 iraqi soldiers were killed in four Days of fighting that ended Friday. It gave no figure for rebel casualties. An estimated 10,000 rebels and 200,000 refugees sought Sanctuary in the marshes last year fleeing Saddam a army after it crushed a monthlong shiite rebellion in Southern Iraq. Saddam launched his offensive in mid april in what appeared to be a major Effort to eliminate the ragtag army of rebels in the marshes which cover some 6,000 Square Miles and straddle the Iraq Iran Border. That coincided with reports from travellers from Baghdad that Saddam has appointed maj. Gen. Ali Hassan Al Majid his Cousin and defense minister to take Overall command of the Southern operations. Al Majid one of Saddam a closest lieutenants is notorious for his ruthlessness and loyalty to the iraqi Leader. His nickname is a Butcher of the of anonymity said both officials and their families were out at the time. They said a neighbor of Yaseen a was Hurt by shrapnel. Another passer by was slightly wounded in Majdali Silim. Police said the raids in East Lebanon targeted a Hezbollah training base in Janta three Miles West of the syrian Frontier in the syrian controlled Bekaan Valley. Police said one civilian was wounded. Hezbollah reported no casualties among guerrillas in the attack on Janta which was shrouded with Grav Clouds of smoke that could be seen from Baalbek 12 Miles away. Reporters and photographers trying to reach Janta were turned Back by Hezbollah guerrillas who warned the planes May have dropped delayed action bombs. Police said the jets fired eight rockets and eight delayed action bombs on the Janta base. A . Source speaking on condition of anonymity said a Shell damaged the two Story government Hospital in Tinnin. None of the 30 patients at the Hospital was reported injured. Students clash with riot police in South Korea Seoul South Korea apr thousands of students occupied City Hall Plaza sunday after Battles with riot police in one of the largest antigovernment protests in recent years. Students roared in Victory after they drove out an estimated 1,000 riot police from the Plaza a rendezvous Point for the Days protests. A Down with do pm a the governing democratic Liberal party a shouted students in unison As they triumphantly raised clenched fists into a sky filled with tear Gas. About a dozen students and police were injured in the clash in the Plaza the fiercest of the Day. Students in groups of 1,000 to 2,000, charged police from several directions and fought with their hands. Some students wielded steel pipes. The protests came at the end of a three Day rally at Seoul a Hanyang University where 50,000 militant students pledged to step up a Campaign to overthrow the government Waldheim did t foresee Flap Over past v Ienna Austria apr departing president Kurt w Waldheim said saturday that he would not have run for office had he foreseen the controversy Over his German army service in world War ii. Waldheim told state radio that he is ending his six year term a with a feeling of a i suffered. In my function As president and As a person a Waldheim said. Waldi Ieuv. A former . Secretary general admitted he was an intelligence officer in the Balkans with an army unit accused of atrocities. The state department has placed Waldheim on a watch list of undesirable aliens and no major w seem leaders visited Vienna during his tenure. Waldheim 73, told state radio he was a shocked an deeply Hurt to be branded a nazi which i never but he acknowledged that during the 1986 presided tial Campaign he showed a too Little inner sympathy pc the victims of the nazis. Waldheim a successor Thomas Klestil a career Dif Lomat and former ambassador to Washington is to Tak office july 8.return of ousted Leader not part of haitian Reform port a Prince Haiti a the military backed government has enacted a Law that would replace Haiti s interim president and prime minister with a single executive officials said saturday. Parliament is reorganizing the government but making no explicit provisions for the return of ousted president Jean Bertrand Aristide. The military opposes his reinstatement. An opposition politician said saturday that there will be no peace without the return of Aristide Haiti a first freely elected president. Student groups have called for anti government protests today. The flood of would be refugees continued unabated saturday despite president Bush a order to repatriate haitians without first checking to see if they were Beine persecuted in their Homeland. Quot one haitian jumped overboard in an attempt to kill himself saturday after being returned to port a Prince on a l a. Coast guard Cutter. He was one of a record 909 haitian boat people returned in one Day. He was rescued by a Oast guardsmen. Meanwhile reports saturday said attackers burned Down an army Huipo t near the Southern cite of i o Cavern Aristide stronghold on Friday night. The military arrested scores of people including Les Cayes Deputy mayor the Independent haitian press Agency quoted witnesses As saying. Army col. Jean Robert Gabriel said assailants in two vehicles also sprayed the Post with gunfire according to voice of americans Creole language service. Voa reported that the troops fled the burning outpost. I he Law provides for an All powerful prime minister who would stand in for president a High government official said saturday. He said the presidency would remain vacant until a definitive solution is found to end the crisis which began with the army a toppling of Aristide last september. The Law was published Friday night in the governments official Gazette the official said on condition of anonymity. Interim president Joseph Nerette and prime minister Jean Jacques Honorat signed the document a week ago. A the Law is the next to the last step before a definitive solution a said Senate president Dejean Belizaire on saturday he said he believed a new government could be installed w within two weeks
